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Show SMALL PART OF THE PROFIT Rest Gleaners of Bosstsd Agricultural Wealth of Country Are Men Who Manipulate Marketa. If the upllftera were half as active In searching for the ways and means to enable the farmer to sell bla cropa to advantage aa they are In devising achemea to lend blm money, which after all he must repay, the man behind be-hind the plow would not long need to be a borrower. That there Is grest profit In farm products nobody now questions; but It does not need a statistical expert to prove that the farmer geta only the smallest part of this profit, writes Wllmer Atkinson In the Denver Field and Farm. The members of the milk combine amass great wealth, while the owners of the cows are barely able to pay tbelr feed bills. The makers of milk products are also men of much substance; but the man behind the cow can seldom scrape enough together to give himself him-self a brief holiday. The butter trust la an assured fact and there la no doubt about the financial rating of the member thereof; but the average farmer la atlll obliged to gtve a 90-day 90-day note for the cow he need In order or-der to keep the stream of godden but' ter undiminished. Of the beef trust It seem el moat su-perfluous su-perfluous to write. The genetlemen who form tbia trust which utilises every part of the ateer, from the horna to the tail, and every part of the hog, from the aequeal to the curl In Its caudal cau-dal appendage, are not Buffering the pangs and pains of poverty; though the man who fed the ateera and the bogs may scarcely have where to lay his hesd or know how to rid himself of the mortgage that weighs him down. When we come to consider the crops which the farmer planta In faith from year to year, and garners by the sweat of bla face, we find conditions con-ditions ilmllar to those affecting other productions of the farm. It Is not the man who aowa and reapa the wheat and corn or laboriously tends his potato po-tato field, to the end that the buga and beetles do not eat him out of houae and home, that waxes rich and arrogant arro-gant On the contrary, the real gleaners glean-ers of the boasted agricultural wealth of the county are the men who manipulate manip-ulate the marketa and have a strangle hold on the grain elevators. They own limousines and go to Europe In the aummer and to Florida or California In the winter. Few of theae soft-handed soft-handed disseminators could raise a potato or a head of wheat If their Uvea depended on It; but they are master artiste at depressing the market mar-ket when the cropa are In the hands pf the men who grew them and booming boom-ing prleea when they have theae same crops secure In elevators and storage warehonaes. Therefore, what the farmer needa to enable him to better his condition is not so much an easy meana for borrowing bor-rowing money although tbla la a good enough reform In Ita way aa release re-lease from the trusts and combines that prey upon him and rob him of what Is Justly bis, because the lawa do not adequately protect his Interests. I have already ahown that there are large profits made from all the productions pro-ductions of the farm and that the pursuit of agriculture la attended with much gain, but that much of It goes Into the wrong pockets, and the burning question of the day Is how to secure an equable division so that the producer shall get more and the mere manipulator much less. To aolve thla riddle of the agea la a task worthy of the best minds of the twentieth century. cen-tury. The solution might not bring about the millennium, but It would give justice to a great body of people and make agriculture what In the beginning be-ginning It waa designed to be, an honorable, hon-orable, well-compensated calling. |